…escaping to new adventures at curtain up…
Saturday 22nd September 2018 at Manchester Palace Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Roald Dahl’s Matilda is an undisputed modern classic and this stage musical from the RSC is truly worthy of Dahl’s original magic. It’s a whole lot of fun with a thin veiling of darkness and melancholy as befits any of Roald Dahl’s tales - but particularly... Continue Reading →
Friday 21st September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Alas, poor Yorick!’ - in The Turk, we’re given something of an extended Hamlet-Yorick moment between our protagonist, Johann Maelzel and the head of the famous The Automaton Turk, a machine programmed through cogs and tech sorcery to play chess. Our speaker/indirect lecturer for the evening... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 18th September 2018 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a world like ours and in times like these, we all need a little Priestley. To be a little more specific, we need a good dose of straight-talking from Priestley’s eponymous hero of An Inspector Calls. This is a play in two parts: part riveting,... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 11th September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Harrogate Theatre’s Rep Company switch their Boeing Boeing boarding passes for secret letters in their second show of the season: Dail M for Murder. Frederick Knott’s suspenseful cat and mouse tale was brought to the big screen by the great Alfred Hitchcock and is now brought to... Continue Reading →
Friday 7th September 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up Theatre) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jim Cartwright’s Road marks the first production to play in Leeds Playhouse’s Pop Up Theatre as well as the debut of their brand new Rep Company, directed here by Amy Leach. Going in knowing zilch but for the pitch, I think I was expecting... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5th September 2018 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Is literature always written with some level of honesty and sincerity or is it by its very nature a study of artifice? In The Habit of Art, Alan Bennett takes on both this probing question and the notion of being someone of such great success that... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 4th September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dating three flight attendants at once, Bernard has it all to begin with - he’s living the dream; the cat with the cream; the rapper with the gold teeth; the kid with all the candy etc etc - yet such bliss can’t possibly last in a farce... Continue Reading →
Saturday 1st September 2018 at Nottingham Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times is based on the fascinating and heartening true story of WW1 soldiers who began printing a wartime publication after discovering a working printing press amongst the rubble in Ypres. The play follows seven British men knee-deep in trench... Continue Reading →
Saturday 25th August 2018 at Roundhay Park, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is one of, if not the greatest work of Jane Austen... David Kerby-Kendall has taken up the perilous task of adapting this classic for the stage, condensing a sweeping narrative into around two hours - and... Continue Reading →
